The book published by Maverick Arts Publishing will be adapted by Slurpy Studios and co-directed by Katie Steed and Jon Hunt, in collaboration with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham. UCA have a terrific track record in animation having recent BAFTA success and has produced four Oscar winners to date.

The film will be completed during the summer of 2014 and will be launched on the festival circuit soon after. ‘The Fearsome Beastie’ has had much success since it’s release in May 2011. It won the People’s Book Prize in 2012 and has also been shortlisted for many other awards, including The Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Prize 2013.

The film is a combination of motion graphics and character animation. It was designed to first connect with the audience, by exploring the difficulties that businesses can face in trying to reach and communicate directly with their customers, and then explain the solution that Terakeet offer.

We designed this film knowing that we needed to visit both past and future, and so chose a style that was timeless – allowing the details, such as clothing and furniture to provide any necessary information about where and when each scene was set. The characters were designed to work only in profile, meaning that the film was staged in a very flat, 2-dimensional way to hi-light the repetitious nature of history and emphasise both what has changed, and what has not.

To create the ‘wow’ effect that Hire the Barman were looking for, we took that concept of an animated lecture one step further; animating the drawings as the hand creates them, to make a fun, dynamic and fast paced film. We also chose to use splashes of colour, to help the film stand out visually and to show Hire The Barman as the vibrant company that it is.

GL Assessment is a leading provider of independent tests for school aged children. They wanted their explainer video to convey the information that a potential partner will need to understand, using the visuals to hi-light the messages and enhance GL Assessment’s brand and desirability.

We chose a stop motion style of animation, and set it in the ultimate learning environment; a school desk. We then created several characters, designed to look as though they’d been drawn and cut out by a child, and used them to tell the story, along with several desk style props. This created a hand-made feeling, getting straight to the heart of the message with a simple and effective technique.

This explainer video was designed to explain the benefits, rewards and process of investing through Seedrs, while appealing to two distinctly different target audiences; investors and entrepreneurs.

With two target audiences, each with their own needs and concerns to address, we decided to use two characters to represent the different sides of the equation.

Using character animation, motion graphics and typography, the film follows our investor (Warren) as he struggles through traditional methods of providing start up capital, before discovering Seedrs and using it to help our Entrepreneur (Steve) as he raises the capital and launches his business.

This short film, based on illustrations by Andrew Kolb, with treatment/storyboards by AJA.LA, was created to promote a new app that teaches people to Speak Yoruba (which, for those of you as in the dark as we were when we first got the brief, is the language of one of the largest groups of people in West Africa).

The app ‘combines beautifully illustrated flashcards with an interactive touch interface for a fun and easy way to learn Yoruba.’

The guys at The Hangova have come up with a unique business idea – they help make sure hen parties and stag dos are the most memorable time of peoples’ lives by creating and personalising booklets filled with all the relevant information. Some times the problem with having a unique business model, is that it can be difficult to explain it in a way that gets across all the relevant information while retaining the audiences interest.

So, they approached us to make a fun, lively and original promotional video, and we responded with a short film that was created by photographing the heads of real people against a green screen and them compositing them on 2D animated bodies.

We have just finished work on a very fun animated short for OASYS Automated Playout. Hi-lights for us include animating the Heath Robinson style machine (at 1.38 minutes) as a visual way to illustrate their playout software, and putting in some subtle (and some not-so-subtle) background gags.

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